17 November 2013

Love Around Review

Title: Love Around

Genre: Romance

Episodes: 21

Broadcast period: 2013-Jun to 2013-Oct

Theme song: Come back to me by
Bii

Cast: George Hu and Annie Chen.

On his birthday Zhou Zhen (George Hu) is
heartbroken when he is reminded of his girlfriend’s promise to celebrate his
birthday with him. She broke up with him 2 weeks before the birthday, because
she was fed up with his father and the gangster background of his. Ever since
the break-up, Zhen started calling a radio station, asking for the same song to
play. Hosting the show is Liang Xiao Shu (Annie Chen), who is known to be
honest and straight forward in her opinions, and personally believes that
justice will always be victorious. Feeling bad for him and wishing him the
best, she repeatedly plays it every time he asks. As her boyfriend’s birthday
is on the same day, she decides to buy him something related to the one thing
he loves: baseball. At the baseball court she meets Zhen, unaware that he is
who he is, and starts lecturing him about the fact that he paid three booths so
no one else can play, except for him. When a competition is held where the
winner gets a signed baseball bat, Xiao Shu wants to win so she can give it to
her boyfriend, but is really bad at it, so she asks Zhen for the favor,
basically pleading him, and eventually persuading him. He wins the bat, and
gives it to her free of charge. The two end up meeting again after she by
accident enters his cab, and she wants to pay him back, but he leaves not
wanting her money. Running after him, she happens to see her boyfriend at the
hotel where Zhen left, and follows him to find out that he is cheating on her.

After an ugly break up, and Zhen helping
her, the two become buddies. But Xiao Shu hates gangsters, especially since her
father is an ex-cop and she keeps putting Zhen’s father down on her show…

This drama was a very good break from all
those dragged and long dramas, also made me fall for this couple. The storyline
is very simple and honestly quite slow in its action. I mean for some people it
might even be boring, but I have to say this, it really is an okay family
drama, even with the lacking and somewhat obvious story. But for some reason I
enjoyed it, and it might be because I really missed Taiwanese dramas, the
entire too-serious-for-life kind of love stories and yes as said before,
obvious.

To sum up, I would say it is good, and the
couple is one the best in drama history.